Cynthia Toman, RN, PhD Assistant Professor Associate Director, AMS Nursing History Research Unit

Career Components: Critical Care nursing Cardiovascular nursing Community nursing, US Office of Economic Opportunity, Puerto Rico Camp nursing Research Co-ordinator, clinical trial Historian, Canadianist University professor

Sailor’s First Mate

Theses: “ ‘Officers and Ladies’: Canadian Nursing Sisters, Women’s Work and the Second World War,” PhD dissertation (History), University of Ottawa “ Crossing the technological line: Blood transfusion and the art and science of nursing, ,” Masters thesis (Nursing), University of Ottawa

Teaching Responsibilities: Undergraduate Research in Nursing and Health Developing an online undergrad nursing history elective Graduate Advanced Nursing Theories Guest Lectures Nursing History Historical Research Methods

Research Interests: Canadian Nursing History Nursing practice Medical technologies and nursing Blood transfusion Delegated medical acts Scientific Management / Efficiency Nursing Military nursing First World War Second World War Nursing workforce issues New Perspectives based on a Century of Canadian census data Previous research Patient education Heart failure education and counseling Continuity of care Activity progression post-MI

Consultant Canadian War Museum Canadian Museum of Civilization

Publications ‘Body Work,’ Medical Technology, and Hospital Nursing Practice. In On All Frontiers: Four Centuries of Canadian Nursing, eds. Dianne Dodd, Tina Bates, and Nicole Rousseau, pp (University of Ottawa Press, 2005). “ ‘Ready, aye ready’: Canadian Military Nurses as an Expandable Workforce, ” In On All Frontiers: Four Centuries of Canadian Nursing, eds. Dianne Dodd, Tina Bates, and Nicole Rousseau, pp (University of Ottawa Press, 2005). “ ‘An Officer and a Lady’: Shaping the Canadian Military Nurse, ” In Out of the Ivory Tower: Feminist Research for Social Change, eds. Andrea Martinez and Meryn Stuart, pp (Toronto: Sumach Press, 2003).

(cont.) C. Toman and M. Stuart. (2004). Emerging Scholarship in Nursing History. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 21(2): (2004). Almonte’s Great Train Disaster: Shaping Nurses’ Roles and Civilian Use of Blood Transfusion. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 21(1): (2003). ‘Trained brains are better than trained muscles’: Scientific Management and Canadian Nursing, Nursing History Review 11: (2002). Antisepsis and sterilization. In Encyclopedia of Public Health, vol. 1, pp , eds. L. Breslow, B. D. Goldstein, L. W. Green, J. M. Last, C. W. Keck, and M. McGinnis. New York: Macmillan, (2001). Blood Work: Canadian Nursing and Blood Transfusion, , Nursing History Review, 9: (2001). George Spence: Surgeon and Servant of the Hudson’s Bay Company, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 18(1): Toman, C. Harrison, M. B., & Logan, J. (2001). Clinical Practice Guidelines: Necessary but not Sufficient for Evidence-based Patient Education and Counseling. Patient Education and Counseling 42 (3):

Help Wanted: TAs for the undergraduate research course [winter term] and the graduate theory course [fall] RA for SPSS analyses of census data, systematic literature reviews, archival work, etc.